"So, what now?" Her boyfriend's question felt like a punch. He'd always known about her college, always seen her as someone with a bright future. The sudden uncertainty, the implications of his tone… it was almost unbearable. She stared into her coffee, her hands trembling slightly.

The closure of the college meant her dreams, her plans, were in jeopardy. How could she tell her family that she had failed? She kept her gaze fixed on the table, unwilling to meet his eyes.

She quickly left the cafe. The city, usually so vibrant and alive, suddenly felt hostile, filled with judging eyes.

Emotion: ashamed

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.97 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.06

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ashamed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ashamed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ashamed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ashamed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.376
ashamed0.344
ness0.327
逃0.297
😞0.295
Suppressed:
de-0.539
que-0.300
😍-0.288
(!)-0.269
🀩-0.242